Battlestar Galactica: 10 WORST Things To Happen In The Colonial Fleet

Lay Down Your Burdens Part 2 is the second season finale of Battlestar Galactica and it very literally goes out with a bang. After a divisive presidential campaign (sounds familiar?) Gaius Baltar has been elected the President of the Twelve Colonies. He immediately signs an executive order, compelling the fleet to start laying the ground work for a new colony on a recently discovered world.

This celebration is cut brutally short when Gina Inviere, a Cylon Number Six model who had been tortured by the crew of Pegasus, before striking something of a strange, sexual relationship with Baltar, detonates a nuclear warhead aboard Cloud 9 - the fleet's pleasure ship.

The resulting explosion kills thousands, destroying Cloud 9 and at least two other ships that were alongside. It is the first major crisis of Baltar's presidency - but the fact that the explosion was detected by the Cylons paves the way for a much darker crisis to follow.